CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major
Meanwhile upstream Arch Linux secured first place finishes with the packaged x265 video encoder.
Or if building SVT-AV1 on all four Linux distributions at their defaults, CachyOS ended up delivering significantly better performance than the three other tested Linux operating systems.
With more than 100 benchmarks run, CachyOS was most frequently in first place with taking the lead 37% of the time to Arch Linux and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS being tied following that at 29%, respectively.
On a geo mean basis for all the benchmarks conducted, CachyOS was around 5% faster than upstream Arch Linux. CachyOS was about 10% faster than Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on this AMD Ryzen Threadripper + Radeon AI PRO workstation or 23% faster than the stock Pop!_OS that is currently derived from the aging Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base. So while this 64-core Threadripper workstation with AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is already quite powerful out-of-the-box, if desiring even greater performance potential there is always the option of running CachyOS.
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